Updating and enlarging on a lifetime's work on Augustus and his constitutions' Lacey discusses the process of gradual encroachment whereby Augustus unobtrusively and with minimal opposition accumulated more and more power, whilst outwardly retaining the facade of a republic. Chapters examine the constitutional settlements of 27 and 23 BC, to which Lacey attributes less importance than most, the nature of the role given to Agrippa, the evolution of tribunician power, his religious prominence and dynastic arrangements. This all adds up to a very thorough and incisive study of how under Augustus...

This source book in translation gathers together extensive extracts from Cicero's works in which he discusses the Roman state ('res publica'). All the extracts are given in English translation and grouped into eight thematic chapters, enabling the student to examine the evidence and draw his or her own conclusions from the material presented.